Trachinocephalus trachinus (Temminck & Schlegel 1846)

Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, Zootaxa 4588 (1), pp. 1-360 : 65-66

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C7390B16-569F-46A2-A823-0018E1934873
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10446997
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1577035E-8044-FFE6-EDFC-C9F91BA80F3C
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Trachinocephalus trachinus (Temminck & Schlegel 1846)
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Trachinocephalus trachinus (Temminck & Schlegel 1846) View in CoL — Indo-West Pacific snakefish

Status at New Ireland. First record from New Ireland by Wang et al. (2018), based on a NTUM 11201 (1 specimen, St. CP 4456-14, northeast of Bangatang ).

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands, north to southern Japan. Found on sand or sand-rubble areas of the lower continental and insular shelf and upper slope, 3–400 m depth. Marine.